Meet Daisy. She’s just caught her boyfriend shagging someone else at her fortieth birthday party. She’s camped out in her childhood bedroom. And it looks as if her dream to have a baby has gone down the pan.
Now Daisy is 40, alone and in a world that seems built for couples.
Time for a F**K It List!
Hilarious and heart-warming, this triumphant novel asks what it is to be 40 and suddenly single, asking the question, why do we think we need a man to start a family, and what would you do with your own F**K It List?
A book to empower every woman sold the lie that they need a man to complete them.
Melanie Cantor was a celebrity agent and publicist for over thirty years. Her clients included Ulrika Jonsson, Melinda Messenger and Melanie Sykes. In 2004, she hosted a makeover show on Channel 4 called Making Space and in 2017 having just turned 60 she was scouted on Kings Cross station, subsequently appearing as a ‘real model’ in the most recent Dove campaign. She is the author of Life and Other Happy Endings.
My thoughts
This was one of those books where you want to meet the main character and tell her that she’s bloody brilliant.
We meet Daisy and she’s in a relationship that she’s being very careful with. What she wants seems to come second, if at all. Then she catches him cheating at her birthday party.
But, Daisy has to learn to live in her own way and find out all the things she likes and wants from life. She writes herself a F**k It list and she discovers that sometimes things can be achieved but in a different way.
I tore through this book. Benedict was such a fantastic character. Daisy was a feminist heroine. She was determined to do things her way no matter of the disapproval of others, her age or any other reason thrown at her. She also learned to find friends and allies in the most unexpected of places. I honestly thought she was brilliant.
The story is warm, witty and at times makes you cry with laughter and heartache. But it’s a fantastic read and it’s a definite summer reading must.
With thanks to Anne Cater, the publisher and the author for this advanced reading copy.
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